CALIFORNIA APPEARS headed for another ugly budget deficit. That means another round of funding cuts to California’s public schools.

School districts around the state once again will be faced with the daunting task of balancing their budgets and that will mean more cuts to extracurricular programs like arts, music and sports.

If this type of bad news makes you angry, depressed or disheartened, then walk it off. No really, walk it off.

From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at Burrell Field, the San Leandro Sports Foundation will host a Save Our Sports Fitness Fair, Walkathon, Team Challenge fundraiser. Proceeds from the walkathon benefit sports/fitness programs in the San Leandro School District.

There will be food, fun and games for the whole family. Please join us and walk for San Leandro schools, community, and for health. For more information please visit www.slsfi.org.

Grass-roots nonprofit organizations like the San Leandro Sports Foundation and the San Leandro Education Foundation have formed for the purpose of supporting and improving our schools and our children’s educational experience.

You can make a difference. Please give generously to the foundation of your choice.

She dismissed all teachers from longtime community-partnered programs serving the disabled: Hedco House (recovering mentally ill), Sorensdale (developmentally disabled) and Older Adult, including convalescent hospitals — from people who cannot get to a campus, sit in large classes or learn at set paces. They are one of the poorest of the poor.

Some students found jobs or volunteer work; all were given purposeful lives helping each other. The program saves the taxpayers thousands of dollars by preventing multiple hospitalizations and keeping students from wandering the streets.

I urge the school district to reinstate fully or partially these community-partnered classes. Anyone who sympathizes, please write, e-mail or phone the district.

Remember, at any time, through a mugging, shooting, incorrect prescription, brain accident or disease, we all could need these services.

Theresa V. Fuller

Castro Valley

Concerns ignored

I AM a Democrat, and, like many other Americans, I am fed up with our do-nothing government at all levels.

I had to laugh at the back page of Rep. Pete Stark’s latest newsletter to his constituents. The Fremont Democrat lists “resources for unemployed workers,” and states that unemployment in California has hit 12.2 percent.

The irony is that this is being sent by a politician so out of touch with his constituents’ reality as to fully back amnesty for all the illegal immigrants in the United States who are taking the jobs from voters in his district.

Instead of allowing all these nice folks to come in here and steal our jobs, why doesn’t he just vote sensibly and require that employers verify the status of their employees? Or is he just representing the “rich business citizens” in his district?

Unemployment isn’t the problem. Neither is health care reform, nor the war in a totally corrupt Afghanistan.

The problem is a corrupt United States government that refuses to address the rightful concerns of its citizens, and it trickles down from there to every other layer of government.

I hope everyone remembers that we still have the right to bear arms, just like we still have the right to vote out the Pete Starks of the world.

Otto Warmbier was arrested in January 2016 at the end of a brief tourist visit to North Korea. He had been medically evacuated and was being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center when he died at age 22.